The Winter Room

I did not have the chance to read any of Gary Paulsen's Young Adult books when I was a kid. I would've loved them! But they weren't yet written when I was a kid. I discovered Paulsen's classic "Hatchet," published in 1987, while I was a substitute teacher for elementary school students in the 90s. I......more

I really liked the book a lot. The lesson I learned from the book was that just because you think someone is lying doesn't mean they are. I thought this was what I learned from the book and I thought the book was really good.......more

This book reminds me of the washcloth that my dad used to clean himself when we ran out of toilet paper, but that's a good thing. I re-read this from time to time just to remind myself of simpler times. The good old days when I used to run the wood splitter with my dad, or clean out septic tanks wit......more

The mother and father are my characters to talk about. The father listen to some of uncle Davids story's. The mother was not really involved in the book.also the father work in the barn a lot by dissecting farm animals for food to survive.The mother Verlie went in the barn and was basically doing th......more

Uncle David was a old hunched man that over reacted to little words. He told fairy tales and was addicted to bad things . He overreacted when Wayne called him a liar and he never told a story then eldon got raged and let it all out on Wayne and saw something through the crack...It was uncle david a......more